In the early to mid 50's my Pop sold Oldsmobiles in San Francisco. It was a big deal when the new car models came out in those years. GM put on big shows called Motorama. It was held at the Civic Auditorium. The new models were shown and futuristic one of a kind cars were displayed. I got to see live big names like Abbot and Costello do "Who's on First" and Jimmy Durante sing and tell jokes with a big band. In those days your parents would let me roam by your self throughout the show. There were movies about driverless cars and all kinds of thing to collect. One of those years I saw a large scale futuristic train. I had Lionel trains by knew this model was larger than O scale. I must have looked at it for an hour. A GM rep told me about the train and how it was going change railroading. Of course it never did but I wondered what ever happened to that beautiful model. Don
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